Best Social Apps For Android 2013

Apparently, there are apps for almost everything. As long as you have your smartphone with you, you will be able to find out which are the best places to have fun, to have a nice dinner, or even to measure your heartbeats. In what concerns the social aspect, we are lucky because there are hundreds of interesting apps that will allow us to keep in touch with the activity of our friends and acquaintances.

Social networking apps allow us to share thoughts, impressions, videos, pictures and pretty much everything related to our life experiences. If you are the kind of person who likes keep in touch with everything that is new around, then you definitely need a proper social app for this job. Fortunately, chances are there is an Android app for almost every popular social networking service, so you will not lose any particular detail when you are on the run.

Within this top 5 best social apps in 2013 list, I will show you some of the most popular social networking apps available in Google’s Play Store, which should work pretty much on every Android-based smart device. However, I will not mention the well-know Facebook and Twitter because I am sure that everybody is aware of their features.

1. Foursquare

This simple app is one of the most popular location-based social check-in services available for Android. Foursquare has become popular among consumers as well as for mainstream businesses. Within this app, business owners attract new customers and fortify existing customers by offering to their loyal foursquare users attractive deals, discounts and even freebies. In the same time, the app can also help keep track of friends and contacts around you at a given time. The app will also notify you of the most popular bars, restaurants, or clubs. What attracts people even more is the fact that their check-ins are rewarded with badges that serve as mementos for where they have been. In case you are interested, Foursquare, the location-based service, is available for download at Google Play store free of charge.

2. Gowalla

Gowalla is also a location-based social check-in app that helps you to share the places you have visited, as well as bars or restaurant where you go with your friends and other contacts. Pretty much as Foursquare, Gowalla offers pins and rewards based on the types of places where you check-in. What is different with Gowalla, is the fact that a Gowalla passport keeps a clear track of where you have been, logging states and cities you may visit.

3. Skout

This apps is not just the previous two apps because is a social networking dating app. Skout is one of the largest dating platforms which gathers more than 5 million unique users. The “Meet Me” feature allows you to flip through and see who is nearby and available for dating. You also have the possibility to see who has checked you out, send messages or wink bombs and visit similar profiles. Wink bombs present you with the opportunity to reach more than 500 individuals of the opposite sex and send a private message.

4. UberSocial

This Twitter client, formally known as Twidroyd, gives users the possibility to highlight only important tweets from favorite and close users. In this way, users will keep in touch only with those persons of interest. In the same time, the app comes with a full menu customization, in-app pictures, and videos. With UberSocial, users will have the possibility to post to Facebook or write 140-characters tweets.

5. Flipboard

Flipboard app is not a social networking app in the full meaning of this word. In fact, this gorgeous app allows you turn your social media events into a magazine style digest, being updated from up 12 social circles, including the famous Facebook and Twitter. As a main point, Flipboard gathers the most important world news found within your social networks and displays them into a magazine-style manner.